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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2020
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Chen Kuang, Montreal, CA;
Marc Bustamante, Montreal, CA;
Thuvaragan Senthilnathan, Laval, CA;
Marc Ouellet, Sainte-Sophie, CA;
Guillaume Biron, Blainville, CA;
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
An architecture for an electric distributed propulsion system includes one or more generators connected to a gearbox, a first and a second plurality of motors connected to the one or more generators, each motor of the plurality of motors connected to a blade to provide thrust, a first and a second power bus electrically connected between the one or more generators and the first and the second plurality of motors, each power bus independent of the other power bus, a first and a second controller independently connected to each of the first and second plurality of motors, each of the first and second controllers serving as a primary and a backup controller, and dual channels in communication between pilot input sensors and the first and the second controllers, and the dual channels including an additional channel to provide redundant communication to the first and second controllers.